Melb Museum volunteers and visitors drop

Volunteers and visitors are staying away from Melbourne's museums, with the numbers for both dropping significantly over five years.

Visitation numbers at the Immigration Museum, Scienceworks, IMAX theatre and the Melbourne Museum have dropped from 2.3 million in 2010-11 to about 1.6 million in 2014-15.

The Melbourne Museum's 2014-15 annual report also shows there were 44,124 volunteer hours in 2014-15, down from 50,120 in 2010-11.